Using my dictionary and some research, I've found that there seems to be three words for "hacker" in Chinese. 黑客，骇客，and 红客. The first two look to just mean "hacker," while the third is a word for the ...

How appropriate, in terms of casualness and/or childishness, is "拜拜"? Is it as childish as "Bye-bye" would be in English, or is it more acceptable?
In case location matters, I'm mainly interested in ...

In Japanese, there's a set of 48 characters called katakana that is often used for transliterating words of European origin. (This is a slight simplification - katakana is used for other purposes as ...

肉排 is Chinese for steak (e.g. 牛排 or 猪排 for beef steak and pork steak), but where did the 排 come from? As a Western cuisine dish, did the word have some roundabout origin?
排 means row/rank, which has ...

I assume 雪茄 (cigar) is a loanword. Who can tell me what language this word was loaned from and, if appropriate, how it was transcribed?
My own guess is that the word was transcribed from English and ...